And just like any other tourist business, we couldn't pick the weather for the day we were here, so we're going up in the rain. I had been warned that the elevator up is disconcerting because you are going sideways, but you're seated in a neat pod that looks like something out of 2001 A Space Odyssey, so I felt like my inner ear was prepared for something weird. The pod also swings a little like a cable car as you go up, so that made it less taxing on the system.
When we got to the top, a whole huge crowd was in line to go down on our cars, so there was John and I and a mother and her son (who were in town for the international robotics convention) for 30 minutes at the top. It felt like you had the whole world to yourself...We ran from side to side and took hundreds of pictures, of the flooded Mississippi, the
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